Overview
Head of Projects, Change & Oversight – SAR – North West
Join Our Team as Head of Projects, Change, and Oversight!
Location: Hybrid/Any location
Department: Nuclear and Assurance
Reports to: Nuclear and Assurance Director
Security Level: DV (can commence initially on SC)
Are you ready to lead and innovate in the dynamic world of nuclear transport solutions? We are seeking a visionary leader to join our team as the Head of Projects, Change, and Oversight. This is your chance to make a significant impact on the safety and security of our operations while driving cutting-edge projects and change programmes.
Role Purpose
As a senior leader within the directorate, you will spearhead specific projects, delivery interventions, change programmes, and oversight/assurance activities. Your mission is to future-proof NTS against a range of internal and external threats, delivering bespoke, innovative security solutions that are cost-effective and best in practice. You will ensure core deliverables are efficient, high-quality, and aligned with key milestone plans, while driving troubleshooting activities to achieve these aims.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Projects: Ensure consistency in approach and cross-domain alignment to enhance the safety and security of NTS.
- Develop Resilience Roadmap: Create key deliverables to bolster NTS’s resilience.
- Troubleshooting: Address resilience issues and lead troubleshooting activities across NTS.
- Assurance Regime: Establish and manage a new internal assurance regime, reporting key KPIs/metrics to ensure compliance.
- Mentorship: Manage and mentor NTS graduates, fostering a positive experience and building Nuclear SQEP.
- Incident Reporting: Streamline and improve security incident reporting, leading on red flag incidents.
- Risk Management: Manage security risks, providing regular updates and guidance to the executive team, board, and NDA.
- HSSEQ Policies: Oversee HSSEQ policies and procedures related to incidents, investigations, and assurance.
- Emergency Exercises: Lead and manage emergency exercises and learning from experience (LFE) activities.
- Career Pathways: Create and manage HSSEQ career pathways to address skill gaps and support new staff.
- Business Continuity: Support business continuity processes and on-call management teams.
- Horizon Scanning: Identify new threats and recommend preventive measures.
- Deputise: Act as a deputy for the Director of Nuclear and Assurance and other heads within HSSEQ.
- Insider Risk: Support and deliver insider risk/threat activities.
- Training and Expertise: Deliver security training and exercises for customers, including IAEA, WINs, and universities/colleges.
- PEN Testing: Conduct PEN testing activities and report key KPIs/metrics.
- Threat and Intelligence: Support threat and intelligence development and trend analysis.
- Legislation Repositories: Create and manage repositories for legislation, regulation, and international standards.
- Business Continuity Procedures: Develop procedures for HSSEQ, shipping, rail, and solutions.
Guiding Culture Principles
- Freedom: Create an environment where our people have the freedom to perform.
- Helpfulness: Work together to help each other and our customers.
- Drive: Be confident, curious, and innovative.
Qualifications and Experience
- Protective Security: Expertise in protective security, NPSA, incident and investigation, counter sabotage, and operational resilience.
- Health and Safety: IOSH or NEBOSH certification.
- ISO Standards: Experience with ISO 9001/27001 or equivalent.
- Risk Management: Proficiency in risk management and threat/intelligence analysis.
- Project Management: Skilled in using program/project management software or systems.
- Investigations: Experience in complex investigations across various disciplines.
- IT and OT Systems: Working knowledge of IT and OT systems.
- Team Management: Proven ability to manage multidimensional teams.
- Diplomacy and Networking: Strong diplomacy and networking skills, with international experience being highly desirable.
- Security Experience: Experience in private and/or public sector security.
- Quality Systems: Familiarity with quality systems and troubleshooting in HSSEQ areas.
- Leadership: Experience working with directors, boards, and authorities.
- Accreditations and Regulations: Knowledge of accreditations and regulations.
- Performance Improvement: Track record of improving departmental performance.
- Team Development: Experience in developing team members at all levels.
- Asset Protection: Expertise in asset/information protection.
- Policy Creation: Ability to create policies, strategies, and roadmaps.
- Change Management: Evidence of successful change management and transformation.
Behavioural Competencies
- Leadership: Capable of engaging all levels of business.
- Political Judgement: Confident in interpreting CEO and Executive Team views.
- Resilience: Flexible and resilient, with strong professional judgement.
- Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Stakeholder Relationships: Ability to build effective relationships with stakeholders.
- High-Quality Outcomes: Focused on delivering high-quality outcomes with strong attention to detail.
- Advocacy: Positive advocate for company-level projects and initiatives.
- Collaboration: Ability to work independently or collaboratively to deliver agreed outcomes.
- Cultural Awareness: Well-developed cultural awareness, influencing, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills.
Special Features
- Security Clearance: DV required, but can commence initially on SC.
- On Call: This role will form part of the required NTS On Call rota.
The company
We are the leading global provider of safe, secure and reliable nuclear transport solutions that make the world safer and more sustainable.
As part of the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, we support the largest environmental restoration programme in Europe, and we use our specialist transport and logistics expertise to help customers and partners around the world solve their own complex challenges.
